Microbial Contamination and Food Degradation

Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.

• 1. Food Products and Food contamination2. Microbial contamination, prevention and early detection in food industry 3. Microbiological Contamination in Foods and Beverages: Consequences and Alternatives in the Era of Microbial Resistance4. Quorum sensing as a mechanism of microbial control and food safety5. Food Degradation and Food-borne Diseases: A Microbial Approach6. Fresh cut fruits: microbial degradation and preservation7. Occurrence of natural toxins in seafood8. Biopreservatives as agents to prevent food spoilage9. Wine microbial spoilage: advances in defects remediation10. Near Infrared spectral informative indicators for meat and dairy products bacterial contamination and freshness evaluation11. Use of bacterial growth curve for assessing risk of microbiological pathogens in food products12. Biosensors and express control of bacterial contamination of different environmental objects13. Mycotoxins in Foods: Mycotoxicoses, Detection and Management14. Multiple-locus variable-number of tandem-repeats analysis (MLVA) as subtyping technique for foodborne pathogens15. Antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of essential oils in food systems - An overview